Hidden evils are most dreaded.
MARTIALYou admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
More Martial Quotes
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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